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All extra information is has been provided by the College Archivist (see References) in response to an enquiry from the IWM, including this biographical detail: '(1925) Born 4 September 1906, 6 Spencer
Place, Leeds, Yorkshire; son of Herbert John Roper, Surgeon, and Mildred Elizabeth
Coddington. BA 1928; MA 1932; BChir 1933; MB 1935; MRCS (St Bartholomew’s) 1933;
LRCP (St Bartholomew’s) 1933. Tutor(s): M P Charlesworth. Educ: Chapel Allerton High
School; Morelands School; Orleton School, Scarborough; St Edward’s School, Oxford.
Career: Casualty House Surgeon, St Bartholomew’s Hospital; House Surgeon, Ear, Nose and
Throat Department, Charing Cross (later Honorary Anaesthetist); Anaesthetist, Hospital of SS
John and Elizabeth, and Connaught Hospital, Walthamstow; Private Practice; EMS, then
Surgeon Lieutenant, RNVR, WWII. Died 2 February 1941.'